Associação da frequência de consumo do café da manhã com adiposidade corporal de estudantes universitários

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Letícia Brito
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso; Brasil; Faculdade de Nutrição (FANUT); UFMT CUC - Cuiabá; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição, Alimentos e Metabolismo
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adiposidade; Antropometria; Consumo de refeições; Estudantes; Universidades; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO; Adiposity; Anthropometry; Meals consumption; Students; Universities
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/4773

The transition from high school to university is represented by an important change in lifestyle-related behaviors among students who stay for long periods at university. Weight gain in this population is the result of a set of behaviors related to lifestyle, including changes in the frequency of meals consumption. Objectives: To analyze the frequency that breakfast is consumed and its association with body adiposity in university students. Method: A cross-sectional study with participants from Longitudinal Study on the Lifestyle and Health of University Students (ELESEU). A total of 2.79 university students from both genders and ages from 16 to 25, who are enrolled in full-time courses in the years of 2015, 2016, 2017 e 2018, at a public university in the Midwest region of Brazil, were evaluated. Sociodemographic, economic and lifestyle information were obtained by self-applied questionnaires. The anthropometric measurements included body mass (weight), height and waist circumference. The study outcome variables were overweight, obesity, high waist circumference and high waist-to-height ratio. The breakfast consumption, as indepedennt variable of the study, were evaluated in the following categories: regular breakfast consumption (5 to 7 times a week), irregular breakfast consumption (1 to 4 times a week) and breakfast omission or skipping breakfast (never or almost never). Associations were estimated through the use of adjusted models of the Poisson regression with robust variance. Results: After adjusting for potentials confounding factors, among men, the omission of breakfast kept being associated with obesity (PRadj= 1.64; IC 95%=1.01;2.66), high waist circumference (PRadj=2.31; IC 95%=1.39;3.83) and high waist-to-height ratio (PRadj= 1.78; IC 95%=1.26;2.51). Amongst women, the irregular consumption of breakfast was associated to obesity (PRadj= 1.86; IC 95%=1.13;3.05), high waist circumference (PRadj= 1.62; IC 95%=1.12;2.32) and high waist-to-height ratio (PRadj=1.70; IC 95%=1.16;2.49); and skipping breakfast was associated to high waist circumference (PRadj= 1.59; IC 95%=1.04;2.42) and high waist-to-height ratio (PRadj=1.67; IC 95%=1.07;2.63). Conclusion: Skipping breakfast or the irregular breakfast consumption had a direct association with total adiposity and with the central pattern of body fat distribution amongst students.